VI. (9) These are the genealogies
of the race of Noah. Noah was a just man, complete in good works in his generation,
(and) in the fear of the Lord walked Noah. And Noah begat three sons, Shem,
Cham, and Japheth.

And the earth was corrupted
through the inhabitants thereof, who had declined from the ways of righteousness
before the Lord; and the earth was filled with rapine. [JERUSALEM. And the
earth was filled with violences and frauds.] And the Lord beheld the earth;
and, lo, it was corrupt; for all flesh had every one corrupted his way upon
the earth.

And the Lord said to Noah,
The end of all flesh cometh before Me, because the earth is filled with rapine
by their evil works; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee
an ark of the wood of cedars; a hundred and fifty cells shalt thou make to the
ark in its left side, and thirty and six in its breadth; and ten cabins in the
midst, to lay up in them provision; and five repositories on the right, and
five on the left; and thou shalt protect it within and without a pitch. Go thou
unto Phison, and take from thence a precious stone, and fix it in the ark to
illuminate you: with the measure of a cubit (or span) shalt thou complete it
above. And a door shalt thou set in the side of the ark; and with dwelling-places,
inferior, second, and third, shalt thou make it. And I, behold, I bring a flood
of waters upon the earth to swallow up all flesh which hath in it the spirit
of life from under the heavens: whatever is upon the earth shall be swept away.
But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt go into the ark,
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. And of
all that liveth of all flesh, two of every (kind) shall go into the ark, to
be preserved alive with thee: male and female shall they be. Of the fowl after
its kind, and of all cattle after its kind, and of every reptile of the earth
after its kind, two of every (sort) shall enter to thee by the hand of the angel,
who will take and cause them to enter to thee, to be preserved. And thou, take
to thee of all food that is eaten, and let it be to thee and to them for food.
And Noah did according to all that the Lord had instructed him.

VII. And the Lord said
to Noah, Enter, thou, and every one of thy house, into the ark; for thee have
I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of all clean cattle take thou
seven by seven, male and female, and of all cattle not clean, two (and two),
male and female. But of birds of the heaven, seven by seven, male and female,
to preserve from them seed upon the earth. For, behold, I give you space of
seven days; if they will be converted, it shall be forgiven them; but if they
will not be converted, after a time of days yet seven, I will cause rain to
come down upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and will destroy all bodies
of man and of beast upon the earth. And Noah did acccording to all that the
Lord had commanded him. And Noah was the son of six hundred years when the deluge
of waters was upon the earth. And Noah entered, with his sons and his wife and
the wives of his sons with him, into the ark, from before the waters of the
deluge. Of all cattle clean, and of cattle unclean, of birds, and of whatever
creepeth upon the earth, two and two they entered unto Noah into the ark, male
and female, as the Lord had instructed Noah.

And it was at the time
of seven days after the conclusion of the mourning for Methushelach, that the
Lord beheld, and, lo, the sons of men had not turned. And the waters of the
deluge came down hotly from the heavens upon the earth. In the six-hundredth
year of the life of Noah, in the second month, which was the month of Marchesvan,
for hitherto the months had been numbered from Tishri which was the beginning
of the year at the completion of the world, in the seventeenth day of the month,
in that day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. And the giants
were gathered there together with their sons and perturbed them, and afterwards
the windows of heaven were opened. [JERUSALEM. And the windows of heaven
were opened.] And the rain came down upon the earth forty days and forty
nights. In that same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Cham, and Yapheth, the
sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him,
into the ark: they, and every animal after his kind, and all cattle after their
kind, and every reptile that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every
fowl after its kind, every bird which flieth. And they entered to Noah into
the ark, two and two of all flesh in which was the breath of life. And they
coming entered, male and female, of all flesh unto him, as the Lord had instructed
him; and the Word of the Lord covered over the door of the ark upon the face
thereof. [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord was merciful upon him.]
And there was a flood forty days upon the earth, and the waters were multiplied
and bare up the ark, and it was lifted from the earth. And the waters waxed
mighty and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went floating upon
the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed greatly upon the earth, and
all the high hills which were under the heavens were covered: fifteen cubits
higher did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh
expired which moveth upon the earth; of fowl, and of cattle, and of wild beasts,
and every moving thing that moveth upon the earth, and all the sons of men,--every
thing in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all on the dry land, died.
And all the bodies of men and of beasts upon the face of the earth, from man
to cattle, to creeping thing, and to the fowl which wingeth in the air of heaven,
perished from the earth; and Noah only was left, and they who were with him
in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

VIII. And the Lord in His
Word remembered Noah, and all the animals and the cattle which were with him
in the ark; and the Lord caused the wind of mercies to pass over the earth,
and the waters were dried. [JERUSALEM. And He remembered in His mercies
the good which was with Noah. And the Lord caused the wind of mercies.]
And the fountains of the deep were shut up, and the windows of heaven, and the
rain was forbidden to descend from heaven. And the waters returned from being
on the earth, going and returning. And the waters were minished at the end of
a hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested in the seventh month, which is
the month of Nisan, in the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains
of Qadron; the name of the one mountain is Qardania, and the name of the other
mountain Irmenia; and there was builded the city of Armenia in the land of the
east. And the waters went and diminished until the tenth month, the month Tammuz.
In Tammuz, in the first of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
And it was at the end of forty days, and Noah opened the aperture of the ark
which he had made. And he sent out a raven; and it went forth, going forth and
returning, until the waters had dried from the earth. And he sent forth a house-dove
from being with him, to see whether the waters were lightened from off the faces
of the earth. And the dove found no rest for the sole of the foot, and returned
unto him to the ark; and he knew that the waters were (yet) upon the face of
all the earth. And he reached out his hand, and took and brought her unto him
into the ark. And he prolonged (waited) yet seven days, [JERUSALEM. And
he began to number,] and again he sent the dove from the ark. And the dove
came to him at the evening time, and, behold, a leaf of olive gathered, broken
off, she brought in her mouth, and which she had taken from the Mount of the
Meshiha. And Noah understood that the waters had lightened from being on the
earth. And he prolonged yet seven days, and added to send forth the dove; but
she added not to return to him again. And it was in the six hundred and first
year, in Tishri, in the first of the month, in the beginning of the year, that
the waters were dried from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of
the ark, and saw the faces of the ground to be dried. And in the month Marchesvan,
in the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

And the Lord spake with
Noah, saying: Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the
wives of thy sons, with thee. Every living animal that is with thee of all flesh,
of fowl, of cattle, and of every reptile that creepeth on the earth, bring forth
with thee, that they may produce in the earth, and spread abroad and multiply
on the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives
of his sons, with him. Every animal, every reptile, and every bird, which moveth
upon the earth, according to its seed, went forth from the ark.

And Noah builded the altar
before the Lord; that altar which Adam had builded in the time when he was cast
forth from the garden of Eden, and had offered an oblation upon it; and upon
it had Kain and Habel offered their oblations. But when the waters of the deluge
descended, it was destroyed, and Noah rebuilded it; and he took of all clean
cattle, and of all clean fowl, and sacrificed four upon that altar. And the
Lord accepted his oblation with favour: and the Lord said in His Word, I will
not add again to curse the earth on account of the sin of the children of men;
for the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; neither will
I add to destroy whatever liveth as I have done. Until all the days of the earth,
sowing in the season of Tishri, and harvest in the season of Nisan, and coldness
in the season of Tebeth, and warmth in the season of Tammuz, and summer and
winter, and days and nights shall not fail. [JERUSALEM. Until all the days
of the earth from now, sowing and reaping, and cold and heat, and days and nights
shall not cease.]

IX. And the Lord blessed
Noah, and his sons, and said to them, Spread forth and multiply, and replenish
the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens; of all that the earth swarmeth
forth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. Every
moving thing which liveth to you shall be for food: as the green herb have I
given to you the whole. But flesh which is torn of the living beast, what time
the life is in it, or that torn from a slaughtered animal before all the breath
has gone forth, you shall not eat. But the blood of your lives I will I require
of every animal which hath killed a man, I will require that it be put to death
on his account. And from the hand of the human being, from the hand of the man
who hath shed the blood of his brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso
sheddeth the blood of man, the judges, by witnesses, shall condemn him unto
death; but he who sheddeth it without witnesses, the Lord of the world will
bring punishment on him in the day of the great judgment; because in the image
of the Lord He made man. And you, spread yourselves abroad and multiply; bring
forth in the earth, and increase in it.

And the Lord spake to Noah,
and to his sons with him, saying, I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,
and with your children after you; and with every living soul that is with you,
of birds, and of cattle, and of every beast of the earth that is with you, of
all that go forth from the ark, of every beast of the earth. And I will establish
my covenant with you, and will not again cause all flesh to perish by the waters
of a flood; and there shall not again be a flood to destroy the earth.

And the Lord said, This
is the sign of the covenant which I establish between My Word and between you
and every living soul that is with you, unto the generations of the world. I
have set My Bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between
My Word and the earth. And it shall be that when I spread forth My glorious
cloud over the earth, the bow shall be seen in the day (time), while the sun
is not sunk (or hidden) in a cloud. And I will remember My covenant which is
between My Word and between you and every living soul of all flesh, that there
shall not be the waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be
in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant
between the Word of the Lord and every living soul of all flesh that is upon
the earth. And the Lord said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant that
I have covenanted between My Word and between the word for all flesh that is
upon the earth.

And the sons of Noah who
went forth from the ark were Shem, Cham, and Japhet; and Cham is the father
of Kenaan. These are the three sons of Noah, and from them they were spread
abroad to dwell in all the earth.

And Noah began to be a
man working in the earth. [JERUSALEM. And Noah began to be a righteous man,
and he planted a vineyard.] And he found a vine which the river had brought
away from the garden of Eden; and he planted it in a vineyard, and it flouished
in a day; and its grapes became ripe, and he pressed them out. And he drank
of the wine and was drunken; and he made himself naked in the midst of his tent.
And Cham, the father of Kenaan, beheld the nakedness of his father, and showed
to his brethren without. And Shem and Japhet took a mantle, and bare it upon
the shoulders of each, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father; and their faces were turned back, and the nakedness of their father
they did not behold. And Noach awoke from his wine, and knew, by the relation
of a dream, what had been done to him by Cham his son, who was inferior in worth,
on the account that he had not begotten a fourth son. And he said, Accursed
is Kenaan who is his fourth son, a serving servant shall he be to his brethren.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, whose work is righteous;
and therefore shall Kenaan be servant unto him. The Lord shall beautify the
borders of Japhet, and his sons shall be proselyted and dwell in the schools
of Shem, and Kenaan shall be a servant to them. And Noach lived after the deluge
three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noach were nine hundred and
fifty years; and he died.

X. These are the generations
of the sons of Noach, and (of the) sons (who) were born to them after the deluge.
The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and
Meshek, and Thiras. And the names of their provinces, Afriki, and Germania,
and Medi, and Makadonia, and Iatinia, and Asia, and Tharki. And the sons of
Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarma. And the sons of Javan, Elisha, Alas,
and Tarsas, Akazia, and Dordonia.

[JERUSALEM. The sons
of Japheth, Gomer; and the name of their provinces, Afriki, and Garmania, and
Madai, and Mokdonia, and Yatania, and Asia, and Tharki. And the sons of Gomer,
and the name of their provinces, Asia and Pharkui (Phrygia?) and Barberia. And
the sons of Javan, Elisha, and the name of their provinces, Alastarasom, Italia,
and Dordonia.]

From these were distributed
the tribes of the islands of the Gentiles, every one according to his language,
to his kindred in their nations. And the sons of Cham, Kush, and Mizraim, and
Phut, and Kenaan. And the name of their provinces, Arabia, and Mizraim, and
Alichrok, and Kenaan. And the sons of Kush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and
Raama, and Sabteka, and the name of their provinces, Sinirai, and Hindiki, and
Semadi, and Lubai, and Zingai. And the sons of Mauritinos, Zmargad and Mezag.
And Kush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty in sin, and to rebel before the
Lord in the earth. He was a mighty rebel before the Lord; therefore it is said,
From the day that the world was created there hath not been as Nimrod, mighty
in hunting, and a rebel before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was
Bavel the Great, and Hadas, and Netsibin, and Ketispon, in the land of Pontos.
From that land went forth Nimrod, and reigned in Athur, because he would not
be in the counsel of a divided generation. And he left those four cities; and
the Lord thereupon gave him a place; and he builded four other cities, Nineveh
and Pelatiath, Kartha and Parioth. And Talesar, which was builded between Nineveh
and Hadiath; that is a great city. And Mizraim begat the Nivatee, and the Mariotee,
and the Livakee, and the Pantascinee, and the Pathrosim, and the Nasiotaee,
and the Pantapolotee, from whom went forth the Philistaee and the Kaphodikaee.

[JERUSALEM. 9. He was
mighty in hunting and in sin before the Lord; for he was a hunter of the sons
of men in their languages. And he said to them, Leave the judgments of Shem,
and adhere to the judgments of Nimrod. On this account it is said, As Nimrod
the mighty, mighty in hunting and in sin before the Lord 10. And the beginning
of his kingdom was Bavel, and Hadas, and Netsibin, and Katispa in the land of
Bavel. 11. From that land he went out towards Athur, and builded Nineveh, and
Pelatiath-Kartha, and Hadiath......And Talesar, between Nineveh and Hadiath,
which is a great city......13. And Mizraim begat the Mariotaee, and Pentepolitaee,
and Lusetaee, and Pelusaee, and the Pantaskenaee, from whom went forth the Philistaee
and Kapodekaee.]

And Kenaan begat Zidon
his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusaee, and the Emoraee, and the Gergeshaee,
and the Hivaee, and the Irkaee, and the Antosaee, and the Lutasaee, and the
Chomtsaee, and the Antekoee; and after then the seed of the Kenaanaee were scattered.

[JERUSALEM. 17. And
the Tripolaee, and the Arkaee, and the Kaphrusaee. And the Antridanaee, and
the Chamatsaee, and the Antukeia: from Bavel, after then, were distinguished
the islands of the peoples.] And the limit of the Kenaanaee was from Kothanis,
going up to Gerar, unto Azah, unto Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Zeboim, unto
Kaldahi. These are the sons of Cham, according to the seed of their genealogies,
after their languages, in the dwelling of their lands, in the kindred of their
people.]

And to Shem also was born
a son. He is the father of all the sons of the Hebrews, the brother of Japheth,
great in the fear of the Lord. The sons of Shem: Elim, and Athur, and Arphakshad,
and Lud, and Aram. Arphakshad begat Shelach, and Shelach begat Eber. And to
Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days
the earth was divided; and the name of the other Joktan. And Joktan begat Elmodad,
who measured (or lined) the earth with lines; and Shaleph, who led forth the
waters of rivers, and Chatsarmaveth, and Jarach, and Harodam, and Uzal, and
Dikla, and Oval, and Avimael, and Sheba, and Ophir, and Havila, and Jobab. All
these are the sons of Joktan. And the house of their dwelling was from Mesha,
by which thou goest up to Sepharvae, a mountain of the east. These are the sons
of Shem, according to their houses, in the dwelling of their lands, according
to the kindred of their people. These are the houses of the sons of Noah, according
to their houses in their peoples, and from them are the peoples distinguished
in the earth after the deluge.

XI. And all the earth was
(of) one language, and one speech, and one counsel. In the holy language spake
they, that by which the world had been created at the beginning. And it was
while they were journeying from the east that they found a plain in the land
of Bavel, and dwelt there.

[JERUSALEM. And all
the inhabiters of the earth were (of) one language, and of one speech, and one
counsel: for they spake the holy language by which the world was created at
the beginning: while their hearts erred afterwards from the Word of Him who
spake, and the world was, at the beginning; and they found a plain in the land
of Pontos and dwelt there.]

And they said, a man to
his fellow, Come, we will cast bricks, and put them in the furnace. And they
had brick for stone, and slime for cement. And they said, Come, we will build
us a city and a tower, and the head of it shall come to the summit of the heavens;
and we will make us (an image for) worship on the top of it, and put a sword
in his hand to act against the array of war, before that we be scattered on
the face of the earth. And the Lord was revealed to punish them for the work
of the city and the tower which the sons of men builded.

[JERUSALEM. And they
said, Come now, and we will build us a city and a tower, and the head of it
shall reach to the summit of the heavens, and we will make us in it a house
of worship at the top,......and we will put a sword in his hand, lest there
be set against him the array of war, before we be scattered upon the face of
all the earth.]

And the Lord said, Behold,
the people is one, and the language of all of them one: and this they have thought
to do: and now they will not be restrained from doing whatever they imagine.
And the Lord said to the seventy angels which stand before Him, Come, we will
descend and will there commingle their language, that a man shall not understand
the speech of his neighbour. And the Word of the Lord was revealed against the
city, and with Him seventy angels, having reference to seventy nations, each
having its own language, and thence the writing of its own hand: and He dispersed
them from thence upon the face of all the earth into seventy languages. And
one knew not what his neighbour would say: but one slew the other; and they
ceased from building the city. Therefore He called the name of it Bavel, because
there did the Lord commingle the speech of all the inhabitants of the earth,
and from thence did the Lord disperse them upon the faces of all the earth.

These are the generations
of Shem. Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begat Arphakshad, two years
after the deluge. And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphakshad five hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphakshad lived thirty and five years,
and begat Shelach. And Arphakshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred
and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Shelach lived thirty years,
and begat Eber. And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Eber lived thirty-four years,
and begat Peleg. And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg lived thirty years, and
begat Reu. And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years,
and begat sons and daughters. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begat Serug.
And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat
sons and daughters. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. And Serug
lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begat Terah. And Nahor lived after he
had begotten Terah one hundred and sixteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram and Nahor and Haran.

These are the generations
of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And it was
when Nimrod had cast Abram into the furnace of fire because he would not worship
his idol, and the fire had no power to burn him, that Haran's heart became doubtful,
saying, If Nimrod overcome, I will be on his side: but if Abram overcome, I
will be on his side. And when all the people who were there saw that the fire
had no power over Abram, they said in their hearts, Is not Haran the brother
of Abram full of divinations and charms, and has he not uttered spells over
the fire that it should not burn his brother? Immediately (min yad, out
of hand) there fell fire from the high heavens and consumed him; and Haran died
in the sight of Terah his father, where he was burned in the land of his nativity,
in the furnace of fire which the Kasdai had made for Abram his brother.

And Abram and Nahor took
to them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sara, and the name of the wife of
Nahor, Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha and the father of
Iska, who is Sara. And Sara was barren, she had no child. [JERUSALEM. And
Sara was barren, she had no son.] And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot
bar Haran, the son of his son, and his daughter-in-law Sara the wife of Abram
his son, and went forth with them from Ura of the Kasdai, to go to the land
of Kenaan. And they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah
were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.